Volvo has cobbled up a new estate – shooting brake to you, or even shooting break, depending on your spelling – and it is clearly a design coup. Word is that this racy two-door concept wagon will be showed off at the upcoming Geneva International Motor Show (March 6-16). No word yet on whether it will go into regular production.

What can we say? For decades, Volvo has produced sturdy, chock-a-block cars that capitalize on their practicality and safety. Some Volvos have gone a million miles or more, albeit they weren’t very interesting miles. With few exceptions, sexy is not the word that comes immediately to mind when the name Volvo comes up in car-geek chats.

The few exceptions of course, are the lovely 1800E coupe and 1800ES two-door wagon (1961-73, including the earlier P1800). These were so un-Volvo at the time that after they went away, Volvo didn’t replace them with anything even remotely as cool. Sure, there was the blah C70 convertible, but so what. And the C30 sport coupe. A nice try, but nothing like this.

Since we haven’t even seen the new car, we can only comment on the photos, but clearly it’s a sleek little wagon and, just as clearly, it seems to have derived from the Volvo concept coupe that was publicly revealed last summer. But the coupe, to me at least, doesn’t hold a candle to the two-door wagon — we shouldn’t even be calling it a wagon. It’s an estate. (When it gets totaled in a wreck, is it intestate?)

As Jalopnik.com writer Patrick George gushes about the new estate, the car “is so stunning that I will be unable to think about anything else at work today.”

Check out more of the recent Volvo concepts, starting with the 2014 Concept XC Coupe: